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OAKLAND — Any question about what kind of impact the Warriors new dynamic with Kevin Durant joining the fold would have were answered in Game 1.

With the Cavs locked in on the Warriors traditional three-point threats, it left gaping lanes wide open for a driving Durant and he did not turn down the opportunity.

It made for a pretty one-sided opening game.

It’s highly unlikely those lanes will be so wide open again in Game 2, not with the volume of tape the Cavs have consumed in the past 48 hours, but there’s no question the Cavaliers will have to do something different.

Even then it might not be enough.

It’s easy to say ‘We’re going to take this away’ and the Cavs are certainly capable of doing that but in taking something away they leave themselves open to something else.

That in short is the impact of adding a Durant to a team that already boast so much talent.

That’s just on the court. Off the court the addition has had a ripple effect. Curry has picked things up from Durant. Durant has picked things up from Curry. The great are getting even better stealing from one another’s game.

Both are notoriously hard workers and even that is further driving the other to be better.

“Most guys are self- motivated, self-driven,” Curry said. “We understand what it takes to elevate our game, get better every single year, how to use our practice sessions, our individual sessions, whatever it is, to stay sharp. But when you have a culture of guys that work, guys that want to be great and want to put the time in and not cheat the game, it’s huge because you can feed off of that energy.

“Even though it’s an empty gym after practice, a something like Game 36 of the regular season, it’s the same process. We finish practice, guys get their individual sessions in, some guys come back late at night, get shots up. It’s just kind of the status quo around here. We’re going to work and you’re going to do whatever you can to get yourself ready for a big moment throughout the course of the season. That identity and that kind of expectation has been established from day one. So it’s huge.”

As for stealing elements of each other’s game, both admit they have found improvements in their daily routine just watching the other guy go about his business.

“There’s a lot of different footwork drills and stuff that I’ve never done before, that he has learned along the way ... that I just sit and watch and I try, from time to time, just to kind of shock your body a little bit and see if you can do it and how it may help you,” Curry said when asked what he has picked up from Durant. “I do a little Karate Kid-type balance drill on my pregame warmups that I got from KD and Steve Nash (a Warriors’ development consultant). Just talking about it one random practice and just trying to add that to my repertoire.

“It’s a long career that you want to have, and you have to find different ways to challenge yourself. Whether it comes from KD, whether it comes from Steve Nash, other great shooters, any of my teammates, all that input is very valuable for me as I go forward.”

Durant was no different when he arrived. He was well aware of Curry’s status in the game and his talents and like any good professional viewed it as an opportunity to improve his own game.

“You want to know why Steph is one of the best players in the world, one of the best players ever,” Durant said of his first order of business when he became a member of the Warriors. “You just want to know how hard they work. You want to know their approach to the game. You want to know how serious they take it. So day one, when I came in, I see his work after practice, after shootarounds and how regimented it is. He’s like a robot.

“I think in order for you to be good in this league, it has to be an everyday thing,” Durant said. “And it is with him. So that’s the first thing I wanted to see. And just I wanted to see how he became so good, the techniques, the methods that he used to work on his game. I definitely learned a lot from him as far as his base of his jump shot, his balance in the pick-and-roll, his ball handling, just all the skills that you see within the player. I wondered where he got it from, and I see it every day, the stuff that he works on.”

Much was made of how it would be incorporating another alpha-male into the Warriors locker room. That hasn’t been an issue at all really within the roster.

“It’s been pretty natural, really,” Curry said. “We talked about it all year long. You don’t really have to force much of the infusion of KD into your lineup. He’s an efficient basketball player. A high-IQ guy, fits right into the mold of what we do here.”

The Cavs are getting a heavy dose of what that means to Warriors opponents right now heading into Game 2.

THOMPSON LOOKING TO RALLY

There’s always been this sort of big brother/little brother dynamic when it comes to LeBron James and Tristan Thompson.

And right now the big brother (James) seems to be sending a message to his little brother.

James was asked Saturday what Thompson needs to do to be more effective.

James was blunt with his response.

“Be himself,” he said and that was all.

Thompson already seems to know he wasn’t quite himself in Game 1.

Sitting at a similar makeshift podium on the other side of the gym from James Saturday morning, Thompson was asked to assess his own performance in Game 1.

“Trash,” he said.

Thompson will not fill the scoresheet with points but everthing he does on the court either puts points on the board or prevents the opposition from getting them.

He wasn’t particularly impactful on either end in Game 1 finishing with zero points, four rebounds and a minus-13.

Thompson was confidently predicting a different impact in Game 2 for himself.

“I have to be better,” he said. “I have to bring more energy, make it tough for them. I know they’re watching film, and something for them it’s to keep me off the glass. It’s going to be a wrestling match down there, and you have to keep it

going and make it tough for them and just try to wear them out.

Make them run a lot of pick-and-rolls. Just take it to another level. Playing against the Warriors, you can’t just play hard. You have to play hard to a level where it’s past the thermostat. It’s a different level with this team. So guys have to be reminded - I have to be reminded - that against this team, you have to go balls out.”

Thompson got that reminder in Game 1 and in case he missed it big brother LeBron is telling him again.